Dr. Gridlock has a good piece in the Post about the potential measures WMATA is considering to save money. For Metro, this could mean:
- There could be fewer trains in service between 6 and 7 a.m.
- In the evening, the gap between trains could be widened from 12 to 15 minutes between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. and from 15 to 20 minutes between 9:30 p.m. and midnight.
- The gap between trains could be widened on all lines from 9:30 a.m.to 3 p.m., using eight-car trains.
- On Saturdays, the gap between trains could be widened from 12 to 15 minutes between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
What we'd really like to see--yeah, we must be smoking something--is Metro keep to a published schedule of its trains. If they're going to only run every 20 minutes, wouldn't it be nice to time your arrival at the station when a train is about to get there? Sadly, we have no faith the service can do something so utterly basic. None. Zilch.
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